What Should Spanish Shops Do Now for the DPP?

In short: Spanish shops do not need a finished Digital Product Passport today, but they should start gathering product data and planning how a QR code will be shown. The passport comes from the Ecodesign for Sustainable Products Regulation (ESPR), Regulation (EU) 2024/1781, which is directly applicable across the EU and rolls out product group by product group through delegated acts.

Start with supplier data

The heart of the passport is information, much of which must come from your manufacturers and suppliers. Begin asking now for details on composition and materials, sustainability, reparability and recycling. Building this into how you onboard products means you are ready when a delegated act covers one of your categories, rather than scrambling at the last moment.

Plan the QR and the language

The passport is reached through a data carrier, usually a QR code, so think about where it will appear on the product, packaging or listing. As you sell into Spain, plan to present the passport information to Spanish consumers in Spanish. Market surveillance in Spain is handled by national authorities, so the local context matters even though the rules are EU-wide.

What Spanish shops should do

• Map which product categories are likely to be covered by early delegated acts, such as batteries or textiles.
• Request composition, sustainability and recycling data from suppliers now.
• Plan QR display and Spanish-language presentation of passport information.

Timing is indicative and the detailed rules arrive group by group, so treat this as a qualitative guide and confirm the current position with the relevant Spanish authority before relying on it.

This article is educational, not legal advice.